Friday, November 9
Noon – 1:00 PM: Meet and greet, Science Court. Light sandwiches and refreshments will be provided.
1:00 – 5:30 PM: APS-AAPT Invited Talks: Wege Auditorium (TCL123)
1:00 – 3:00 PM: Quantum Information
Paola Cappellaro (MIT): “Building blocks for a scalable quantum computer”
Robert Schoelkopf (Yale): “Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits: From Single Photons to Schrodinger Cats”
3:00 – 3:30: Refreshment break
3:30 – 5:30 PM: The High-Energy Frontier and the LHC
Martin Schmaltz (Boston University): “Who cares about the Higgs?”
Kyle Cranmer (NYU): “Discovery! How we did it and what we know so far”
6:00 PM: Reception and APS-AAPT Poster Session at the Faculty House. (Tripods will be provided. Posters must be self-supporting.)
7:00 PM: Banquet dinner at the Faculty House
8:00 PM: Banquet talk by Seth Lloyd (MIT): “Quantize This!”
9:00 PM: After hours event for students
Saturday, November 10
7:00 – 8:00 AM: NES-AAPT Executive Committee Meeting, TPL 114
8:00 – 9:30 AM: Pastries and coffee served in the Science Court.
8:00 – 9:30 AM: APS/AAPT Parallel Sessions
Session 1: Teaching Physics, TPL 203
Session 2: Gravity, Cosmology, and Related Topics, Wege Auditorium
Session 3: Quantum Physics and Plasma Physics, TPL 205
Session 4: Theory, TPL 114
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM: APS-AAPT Invited Talks: Wege Auditorium (TCL123)
9:30 – 11:30 AM: Science at the Nanoscale
Murugappan Muthukumar (UMass): “Virus assembly and DNA translocation”
Michael Naughton (Boston College): “Subwavelength manipulation of light”
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Physics Education
David Hammer (Tufts): “What do the students need?”
12:30 PM: Box lunches in the Science Court
12:30 PM: Executive Committee Meeting, NES-APS & NES-AAPT, TPL 114
2:00 – 5:00 PM: AAPT Workshops
Workshop A, Rob Snyder and Mark Tuominen, UMASS-Amherst, “Nanoscale Science and Engineering in High School Physics,” TPL 215
Workshop B, Andrew Duffy, Boston University, “iPhone and ipad App Development,” TPL 106
Workshop C, Mark D. Greenman, Marblehead Science Matters, “Digital Media Supporting Physics Teaching and Learning,” TPL 312
Building Codes
TPL = Thompson Physical Laboratory = Physics
TCL = Thompson Chemical Laboratory = Chemistry
Rooms and capacities
“Science Court” = atrium between TPL and TCL w/Café seating
TCL 123 “Wege Auditorium” = 136 seats
TPL 203 Lecture hall = 115 seats
TPL 205 Lecture hall = 58 seats
TPL 106 Teaching Lab = 20 seats
TPL 215 Intro Teaching Lab = 24+ seats
TPL 312 Intro Teaching Lab = 24+ seats
TPL 114 Classroom = 24+ seats
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